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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785232803321

Autore

McCabe Herbert <1926-2001, >

Titolo

God and evil in the theology of St Thomas Aquinas / / Herbert McCabe ; edited and introduced by Brian Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2010

ISBN

1-4729-6603-1

1-4411-2122-6

1-282-87141-2

9786612871412

1-4411-1156-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

231.8

Soggetti

Good and evil - Religious aspects - Christianity

Theodicy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-194) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Forward / Terry Eagleton -- Introduction / Brian Davies -- The statement of the problem -- Metaphysical preliminaries -- Good and evil -- The creator and evil -- The cause of evil -- Afterword -- Appendix 1 : 'Categories' -- Appendix 2 : editions of St Thomas's writings cited in this volume.

Sommario/riassunto

Herbert McCabe was one of the most original and creative theologians of recent years. Continuum has published numerous volumes of unpublished typescripts left behind by him following his untimely death in 2001. This book is the sixth to appear. McCabe was deeply immersed in the philosophical theology of St Thomas Aquinas and was responsible in part for the notable revival of interest in the thought of Aquinas in our time. Here he tackles the problem of evil by focusing and commenting on what Aquinas said about it. What should we mean by words such as 'good', 'bad', 'being', 'cause', 'creation'